Machines called “Readies” were writer Bob Brown’s answer to “talkies” in the 1930s.

From what makes red velvet cake red (and velvet, for that matter) to its highly dubious origin story, here’s what you need to know about this delicious dessert.

Unpacking the reason hyperlinks are blue requires dipping into early internet history.

From a record-breaking mountain climber to a British adventurer who may have died searching for a city that doesn’t exist and beyond, these explorers have fates that are shrouded in mystery.

James VI and I was the first monarch to rule both Scotland and England. He also spearheaded the Scottish witch trials.

Through her restaurant, cookbook, and television show, Joyce Chen introduced many Americans to Chinese cuisine.

Saudi biomedical scientist Rayyanah Barnawi will carry out breast cancer research while in orbit.

Why be sweltering and sunburnt when you can be swoly and birsled instead?

America’s greatest physicists assembled under the Manhattan Project to create the deadliest weapon the world had ever seen—an atomic bomb.

The daughter of King James VI and I was Electress Palatine of the Rhine and Queen of Bohemia, and through her grandson, the founder of a new British ruling dynasty.

The former model and ex-wife of music legends George Harrison and Eric Clapton made music history in her own right.

Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley occasionally impersonated each other in concerts—here’s the proof.